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What is the price of agricultural lime per ton? 

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This is an important economic consideration as lime is a costly input.
The new procedure recommended about 11% less lime than AE at LRs greater than 1800 lb per acre.
Lime generally improves the performance of soils.
This study stresses the importance of long-term lime experiments on major crops in order to investigate the residual effects and reduce lime costs.
Thus, the results of the present study suggest that lime and gypsum application, along with no-till management and biomass-C input, constitutes an efficient strategy for improving the biological activity, C stocks, and productivity of agricultural soils.
Exchangeable acid saturation of the effective cation exchange capacity, a readily obtained and popular index of lime requirement in some countries, proved as effective as less easily acquired indices based on exchangeable Al per se.